Game of the Month: April 2007

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Thirty days and one good game.

By IGN PlayStation Team

With all the videogames released each and every month, it can be a difficult task to decide on which title to spend your hard-earned money. Granted, you could always go by our review scores alone and weed through the long list of names to find something that scored high or low, but what if you had somewhere else to turn?

Rather than wait until the end of the year for our big award blowout, we've created this monthly tribute to the weeks that were. We've united as one in an effort to tell our readers what we thought was the very best game for each system in the past month, and then tell you the reason why.

Though some of us often chime in with our comments at the end of reviews, for the most part, the reviews on IGN are primarily written by one editor; in this feature we get all of the editors on a particular channel to vote for a single title. What better way to represent a team is there than to speak your collective minds at once?

How does it work? It's simple. Any game released in the past month is eligible for the award and is taken through a battery of tests by every editor on that particular channel. After we've finished evaluating each game we put our heads together and decide on a single "best of" winner that's worthy of the title "IGN Game of the Month." Pretty straightforward, don't you think?

Now that we have the guidelines out of the way, let's move on, and congratulate this month's winner...

Why We Picked It: There's nothing quite like making a fool out of yourself in front of friends, and that's what SingStar Pop helps you succeed at. Packed with 30 songs and six medleys from artists such as U2 and Avirl Lavigne, Pop puts you behind the mic -- two are bundled with the title or you can buy the game without'em if you already have the devices from SingStar Rocks -- and lets you croon along with the words on screen while trying to manipulate your voice to fill in pitch and timing indicators. So grab a pal and laugh along as you try to hit the high notes in "Take On Me."

Why We Picked It: None of the April releases stood out enough to make it in this slot. They weren't all bad, but they definitely weren't worth wasting text on.

Other Games Worth Noting in April:None, brother.

Yikes. Not much of a month for the PS2, eh? Even if you didn't pick up Pop, there's still something to sing about; May promises a cornucopia of titles including Spider-Man 3, Heatseeker, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam, Dawn of Mana, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Surf's Up. Which games will be honored at the end of the month? You'll have to click back here to find out.